A note from Duncan Glew:

Dear friends,

In 2016, I worked with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) to start Big Climb Philly, a fundraiser in which participants climb up the steps of some of Philadelphia’s tallest buildings. The Climb is still going strong. It’s raised over $834,000 in its three years. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your support in making our event such a success!

While I’m excited to see the Climb enter its fourth year, I’m supporting LLS in a different way this year. My friend, Ayla, and I are participating in another LLS campaign, Students of the Year, in which high-school students race to raise the most money for cancer research in seven weeks.

This research is raising survival rates and revolutionizing cancer care. I know firsthand that cancer treatment is painful, nauseating and scary. Even today, nearly three years out from the end of treatment, I’m still dealing with some of chemotherapy’s side effects. That’s why I do this each year — to make sure nobody else has to endure what I did.

I would be so grateful for your support. If you’d like to contribute, you can do so via the box to the left or write a check to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Eastern PA and send it to 100 N. 20th Street Suite 405, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Make sure to put Team Harriton, Students of the Year in the memo line.

Thank you so much! I hope you all have a wonderful 2019.

More about the Students of the Year program:

Students of the Year is a seven-week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The candidate(s) that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student(s) of the Year. Our mission is to not only raise the most money, but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.

Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are helping patients with other cancers and serious diseases. In fact, drugs first approved for blood cancers are now approved to treat patients with stomach cancers, skin cancers, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. We really are changing the face of blood cancer!

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS-funded research but will help provide critical information and support for patients, and support advocacy for laws to ensure patients can access the care and treatments they need.

Please visit our website often and bring friends who would also like to donate!

On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.